I like that Led Zeppelin one from Whole Lotta Love.

Netflix List I haven't been that active a Netflix user in the past couple of years and so didn't realize until this weekend that they now provide a "List" for saving stuff to watch instantly. I like the interface because it combines the wish list with recommended titles. I guess the old Queue did that, too, now that I…

I love Quorn. I even went out of my way to eat it at McDonald's(?) when I visited London, just for the novelty of fast food vegetarian.*

Some other words he could have used instead…fantastic—sarcastic: drastic, elastic, trash stick, mastic, scholastic, monastic, iconoclastic, last pick. I was uncomfortable with it.

Oh yeah, I got SO much reading done when the kiddo was a baby. Congratulations.

I think you will find the Stephenson more satisfying idea-wise…not sure exactly which ones you have lined up. WoT is a great timesink/timekiller and I remember the first four or five fondly. It's an interesting world and the various factions have intriguing differences. The problem is that Jordan set up two main…

I really wanted to like Red Mars. His treatment of the characters bugged me and now I can't remember why. Probably something about depiction of females, that usually gets to me. Wanna try to convince me otherwise? I liked Rice and Salt a lot.

Your comment makes me wonder if Caesar erred by treating the other apes too much like apes: relying on physical intimidation, the hand tapping for forgiveness. It's a tough line to draw in the structure of the script because the differences between ape and human are part of what make the story interesting. Within the…

Oh man, Popeye strongly shaped my dreams of where to live as an adult. That town is one of my ideals. Maybe someday if I can afford Sausalito and learn to sail.

When the first one came out, I devoured it and then put it aside because I was still waiting to finish Wheel of Time and I didn't need another dang series to get caught up in. When the third comes out, I'll probably read all of them again and pay more attention. I really liked the magic/science mixture.

I can never keep Time After Time straight from Somewhere in Time. Can we just have Christopher Reeve chasing Jack the Ripper?

Can you compare Swift with Ian McEwan or Penelope Lively? I haven't read any of him that I can remember.

We don't know why it's called "Kingkiller?" I thought that's why he's working in a tavern.

It sounds like you spent the weekend in some True Detective immersive role-playing experience.

Apes! Apes! Apes with horses, apes with guns, apes with cool face masks, apes with comic books. Apes apes apey-apes.

Yes! I laughed completely inappropriately and then was super tense the rest of the movie. There were a bunch of plot holes but dang it was still affecting.

Yes, please discuss music here! I always love checking out new stuff.

I was liking it as part of a leisurely Sunday morning…read some NYT, check in with you awesome people…tomorrow morning I'll be on my two-hour commute. Geez, maybe this is what makes me fold and get a data plan.

Did anyone watch "Welcome to Sweden" last night? I fully admit I am not the right audience for it: I don't watch a lot of sitcoms, mostly because I find most tv humor lazy rather than funny, and I like Amy Poehler as a comic writer rather than an actress and her brother is basically her with a short haircut.

Gah, I'm totally behind with Midwives. Seems like now is totally the time for them to start solving crimes. Or committing them? That one old nun really was a master jewel thief!